"A Buddhist monk has been killed by a leopard while meditating in a protected forest for the big cats, the fifth such attack in the area this month, Indian police said Thursday" "Rahul Walke Bodhi was seated beneath a tree in Ramdegi forest in western India for morning prayers on Tuesday when the le...

At a pureland assembly there wont be all of that, it'll be incense prayer, praise to lotus pond assembly, praise to amitabha, recitation of short sutra, then nianfo with circumambulation, then bowing,then 7- 13 on your list. This is how it is often done at Jing Kong Fa Shi's centers. At some places,...

Is it because his own practice was so good that he self generated as those deitys?
In the same way as in the sadhana s which read 'your teacher in the form of deity'?
Is it like your teacher has self generated as the deity?

because Lama X is in the neighbourhood next weekend. This statement is worthy of it's own thread. We have sort of set up this situation. Why? Visa only lets the lama stay for so long, that's part of it- but often then the lama may travel around and teach in a different town each week-some of it is ...

This doesn't make much sense, and as far as I can tell contradicts the descriptions of how the bardo works. I cited the source, but I do wonder about it which is why I ask about it here.. I particularly wonder about this part: When you die in your sleep you have no chance to think about good rebirt...

Consider the case of the late Alan Watts. He was a long-time Buddhist but then started to take L.S.D. He recently died in his sleep from a heart attack, very peacefully. But most people don't know that to die in sleep is to die in a state of ignorance. When you die in your sleep you have no chance ...

If one dies while asleep is that considered a good death? I've heard that some teachers say that it is a very bad death because will not be awake to direct one's mind to a better rebirth. But I've heard laypeople describe it as having died peaceful.